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lizbusby's review against another edition
4.0
Man was this a hard book to read. It just makes me extremely frustrated about the state of American education. I am not in favor of holding advanced students back to make other people feel better. In fact, if I were in charge, I'd change to a purely mastery-based grade system and throw out all this silliness about age. Peer relationships are not so important that we should throw out individual needs. Grr. This book made me soooo mad.
dolorsitamet's review against another edition
3.0
Stylistically, the book wasn't great. But - not that I'm a "genius" - I was really moved by the book. That is, the ideas in it - I'm so so so so so infinitely glad to be where I am, where it's okay to be smart and praised and such [I can't believe it isn't like this everywhere still!] and to have supporting peers and family and teachers etc.
But still, imagining an entire SCHOOL like that sounds too good to be true...and I wish we could indeed raise both the floor and ceiling where education is concerned.
Interesting quotes [which I don't usually do but here]:
"most highly gifted children are underachievers - doing enough to get straight A's, but hardly enough to stretch and grow their minds"
"ongoing pep rallies likely to drive the intellectually curious mad"
"They've never been challenged, so they've never failed and are petrified by the idea"
But still, imagining an entire SCHOOL like that sounds too good to be true...and I wish we could indeed raise both the floor and ceiling where education is concerned.
Interesting quotes [which I don't usually do but here]:
"most highly gifted children are underachievers - doing enough to get straight A's, but hardly enough to stretch and grow their minds"
"ongoing pep rallies likely to drive the intellectually curious mad"
"They've never been challenged, so they've never failed and are petrified by the idea"
debnanceatreaderbuzz's review
3.0
A better title would have been simply Genius Denied. The book is long on examples of what is wrong and short on suggestions about how to make things better. I don’t think anyone involved in teaching or parenting the gifted is unaware that gifted kids are not reaching their potential; I don’t think many of us have great ideas on how to improve things. I think we need ideas on how to improve things.
I am eager to check out the website, www.geniusdenied.com. The book tells about a list of books g/t kids love. That is my next stop.
I am eager to check out the website, www.geniusdenied.com. The book tells about a list of books g/t kids love. That is my next stop.
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